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I don't know the original use of the PLY format but I have used it when i wanted to get a denser version of a mesh. Saved in PLY with 16x subdivisions checked, then imported that back into a new model. I did that when making some pants for a cloth test.

Best wishes, Ed!

There was a time when some sort of virtual character interaction MMPRPG web-world was envisioned that would use A:M's data-light spline technology. I think that was what the "avatar" format was for. Possibly it also had something to do with that game studio in Utah?

I'll try to get a look at teh PRj later. W is one component of Quaternion rotation, normal for A:M. I have a brief video that probably doesn't answer all you need to know about it... You can change the default Quat interpolation to Euler or Vector by RMBing on the transform>rotation in the properties.

Someone said he was wandering the desert. I was never sure if that was metaphor or reality. Happy Birthday, Holmes, where 'er you wander!

Shining armor!

Even the big studio shorts like Pixar does tend to be very small scope things, like that birds-on-a-wire short. Great idea with just the bare minimum of set and character models to get it across.

Damn! Good to hear you're still on planet Earth, at least, Rich.

the poly and avatar are Hash formats so they wont' get you much in the outside world. 3DS is a standard format, although most 3ds models are poor candidates for import to A:M because they tend to be triangles, not quads in v17 we now have added .X .dxf .obj .lwo .stl

At a convention I heard this story from a guy who ran a VFX studio but also taught animation at a school in Los Angeles. His class had gotten to the point of starting their final projects and they had to run them by him for approval. One boy had a great idea that the teacher approved right away. A girl in the class had an idea that was borderline lame but it fulfilled the assignment so he approved that too. A week later the boy comes in with a better idea which is obviously superior so the teacher approves changing his project. The next week the boy comes back with an even more fabulous idea and the teacher approves it even though time was running out. In the end, the boy never got his project finished and had nothing to show for all his work but the girl who had been working all along got hers done and had a nice piece for her reel. The moral... "the worst animations are the ones that don't get finished"

the extrusion wizard would get you a shape along a path, right?

I'll note that NetRender doesn't have any fighting aliens, not even a progress bar, just percentages.

I just noticed that there are more real-time render increments now 1,4,16,32,64, adaptive

Two great examples among us of getting-it-done are Spleen and Largento. They set sane limits to their project scope based on what they can do and the time they have to do it in.

It's been so long since I've used any other 3D program I'm not sure what they even do to let you know they are still working. After Effects just has a progress bar and a frame counter which has fooled me on several occasions.

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The CPU overhead for flipping thru the frames of that animation will be microscopic. Consider that the A:M forum has multiple simultaneous animated GIFs scrolling across the top and that doesn't load my CPU even 1% of its capacity.

You could put a Post-It® over it! No, it can't be disabled. In later versions there are several animations that rotate.

It's a lot easier if you post a sample PRJ (and are you saying it works fine if you do the second route?)

Bachelor #1 the IBL is a light source like other lights, it illuminates things without being visible itself to the camera. You only need the dome if you want the camera to see sky in the background. That is my understanding of it.

Lookin' good. Have you tried FakeAO with the hair? that might help to darken the skin and hair roots. The problem I see is when the surface is angled such that the hairs are pointing straight at the camera and the hair doesn't appear to cover the skin.

It's pretty much the same as going back to the model window and changing the model. You aren't creating animation, you are changing the original shape of the model.

Yes, the knob bone would be a child of the door bone.

v14? maybe there was a v15 that ran on a CD? v13 everything from v13 on should be able to do that. In practice there are a few problems with constraints from VERY old versions like v5